I am fascinated by the ruthless character of Xiaohai who hides it well from his "Da Ge". But he did save his sister,…
yes, there's plain too much descending in avalanche usually, although the past few days saw a lull in new airing temptations. I usually stick with one or two dramas at most, having a glimpse of first episodes of other ones which I don't log in on my list before I get back to really watch them, if ever. My other temptations these days are If you are the one, Go East, and Chang Le Qu, perhaps Fateful Love. I may watch them later if I have time. Like I did for Dawn is breaking which I had put on hold because of the Escape...
At the moment I'll stay on thrillers track, started with sizzling romance Embrace in the dark night which is short, so it was easy to fit in after business romance As Beautiful As You.
Why can two top actors be 'trapped' in a boring drama like this. Too confident by eliminating the romantic element...…
I don't know how and why you give it a score since your watchlist is not published (and you don't share much either except one lone review from long ago)
It is not justifiable to down rate a drama because you came for mistaken assumptions (what were you looking for : ML pining for a frail policewoman --or for a male colleague, god forbid?!!) and because you are too tired to watch dramas. If so, just go to bed and forget about it. No one forces you to watch or to rate.
Don't worry about the actors, they are quite happy that hundreds of thousands like their work here and that the heat index is soon going to ring the 10,000 bell. They certainly have no cause to have felt trapped while taking on the job or watching the outcome, now.
I am fascinated by the ruthless character of Xiaohai who hides it well from his "Da Ge". But he did save his sister, so he's falling, perhaps, into the morally gray category. Although I believe he is thoroughly rotten, perhaps as much as the lady we glimpsed. Godfather vibes. Thrilling !! That jump and kick to throw Zheng Nan's attacker away! Totally the kind those who want romance with muscular and powerful mafiosi will look for -- to be ultimately disappointed, since I strongly doubt censors would let pass a drama where the police does not get the upper hand... The team is now well in place, and I am always chuckling at "Mad Dog Yao"s readiness to fly into the feathers of burly thugs. Team leader Bei is surprisingly soft-hearted for the Godfather's right hand man (doesn't he know by now?), and I was amazed that he let himself be out-drunk by Xiaohai. Gu the marathon runner is immersing himself into Dongbei language and cuisine with gusto, always with his glasses firmly in place even when he is being shot at. The other guys stand out less, but have their functions. I am puzzled by the "Snowy" intro pictures with the ghost like figures apparently dangling from a rope.
There is a ban on that sort for dramas in China, so it is unlikely that we'd have to put up with a bromance, especially in the police force, in The First Shot, which passed review.
Anyway, there is a ban on that sort for dramas in China, so it is unlikely that we'd have to put up with a bromance, especially in the police force, in The First Shot, which passed review.
Why has the ratings dropped? Is it because there’s no romance or your glorified “pretty” MLs?🙄. Such…
Yes, I am annoyed too at the pervading "romance expectations" in thriller dramas, and at those who come mistakenly to get disappointed because of no sugar, and just go down grading. To me, that's not justifiable. If it's because there are no "handsome" ML, it's even more unjustified since Wang Ziqi is totally pin-up material, and the others are not ugly either.
I am worming my way through 5-6-7, quite pleased with the pacing and cast, chuckling at "Mad Dog Yao" expressing fears for Gu's "tiger smile" 🤣
In episode 5, her friend Zhao XiaoGuang was having a haircut and mentioned old HK & TW music luminaries of the period (late 1990s early 2000s when the police was not equipped with computers to check fingerprints...) I had to get a refresher of those old (canto or mandopop) songs by the "four kings" (劉德華Andy Lau,張學友Jacky Cheung,黎明Leon Lai,郭富城Aaron Kwok) and had a pause listening to this playlist-sampler : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hb4ZKkmvSY , adding the top 20 from Richie Jen also mentioned by the young sleuth : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5AMiyhAxZs or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aq2XS86alU&list=PLjQLC36lFhLo4cwxPDiOXFwlIHbpP2pbG Do some of you remember and have favorite songs there ?
I have posted reviews / introductions for each episode including the last ones which I watched in "raw": that might help if the wait is getting longer and you lose track of what was going on. I know we think more or less alike, paxxie: no problem!
Back to the release of episodes, I don't know what's going on with the Youku English channel which seemed to stop short at episode 12. And our usual crutches kiss and cool could not get past 14 with subs. So no other way than to watch in raw there or on original platform... until it "changes fate" to paraphrase the title of episode 15, which a helpful commenter discovered a subbed link to, revealed below in this comments section.
I hope it won't be the same for The First Shot... I'm two episodes in there, and like it.
Thrilling start, although I am not so much into fisty-fights from start and wary of Huang Jingyu, again, in a cop role. But the introduction to the team including funny "Mad Dog Yao" brings some lightness to engage into that story. I do have high hopes with Zhang Yimou backing the project, more than for Chen Kaige who was behind "The Pavilion" : can't think of any movie where the famed director ever disappointed me, since back .... when. So, sure it's more ZYM that drew me to that one, after "Escape from the Trilateral Slopes" where I had a look at that still relatively new "White Nights Theater" concept. Oh yes : Wang Ziqi. That's another actor I am following with a positive bias; including here with that period eyeglasses frame !
I have now completed that drama and posted my review. 😆
The companion piece is also mostly finished although I will be proofreading it in the coming days and adding perhaps a few things (not much). There are already 4 interesting farewell posts although I regret I could not find those of Guo Qilin and Wu Zhenyu /Francis Ng. Feel free to add links in comments after the Discussion piece if you find more of interest.
Perhaps Guo Qilin's farewell was in the very long transcript of his interview, which I may add in raw (in Chinese), as pictures like they appear on the social media page. But frankly, I don't feel up to translate the 11 pages (oof!) of posts manually, and there is no option for me to do so from posted screenshots- I lack such tech skills although might in the future enlist competent help to coach me. Here and now, it may be too much work even to screenshot those and add them into an Annex.
So, it is mostly goodbye from me as I am moving on to "The First Shot". Like announced in the "White Nights Theater" description and pinning of an article in the relevant section of the companion piece. Premiere is today September 3 for that new one. And the start is, as expected, rather thrilling, past the first fisty fight and gory scenes. (this comment was edited since 6 hrs last 😆)
The idiot childish fluffy romantic drama watcher theory. Making assumptions about why people like or dislike particular…
I don't intend to bash the romantic watchers, but it is a fact that there are a lot of people who watch dramas wishing to see exclusively (or mostly) romance, so they can gush over the chemistry as a key factor for their appreciation.... As I (repeat) stated, I don't blame them for their bias : there may be grounds for disliking a story that does not feature the (sometimes lamented by others) superimposition of fluff. What I regret is that it looks like among those (not impressively many) MDL watchers who ventured here and put it up in their list, some could be from that state of mind, and will down-rate the drama just because it did not fit their expectations of romance or female empowerment. (AND THIS is not "idiot" "sense of superiority views" but direct reflecting my listening to people discussing in conventions or reading social media opinions randomly - there are too many to compile them all, I gave the link to some Weibo collections, in the companion piece).
If you want to bash my personal opinions for stating the obvious, well... I have posted my review. If you have watched the drama to completion and have an opinion about it, I shall be interested to read yours. If you are still stuck at episode 15 waiting to have a final opinion when you have seen it complete, I hope you will enjoy the remaining ones warts and all, and keep your favorable view on the drama.
Are you trying to watch it ? How is for you, too tough to get back to after 9 days pause ? I finished it yesterday in raw, since last 6 episodes are still not subbed.
So far I have only scrolled through your write up I will go over it in more detail when I am done with this. But…
Thanks for liking and gift! I was just reworking the "animal posters" collection, which now is up to 27 -edit : 28 ! That's in promotion section. There was also a short trailer featuring the animal totems, so I made a small GIF to complement, and linked it to the full trailer which I am not sure was ever posted to YouTube ; but the link should still work. I found it while exploring the Song Jiateng Weibo page (remembering the role as antagonist he had in To The Wonder: one other of my pet dramas, 8 episodes length, refreshingly short). I have added the weekly viewing score and latest heat index. And a first farewell post from cast member. Will explore more Weibo pages in case additional messages can be added...
I have near completed the Music section ; so if you want to listen to those hip hop rap songs , know where they were inserted, and know more about the singer, there you go. I am stumped for the Burmese song though. If anyone knows it and has a link, feel free to add it ? I listened to a lot of Burmese songs but drew a blank... The other two non hip hop songs were possible to find, although one is only in the drama, as acknowledged by the singer who lives or lived in New York City for a long time and is a hardcore Bob Dylan fan. It is the ending song of episode 18. I am not quite sure in which episode Cuo-Cuo-Cuo was sung, perhaps in the last 3-4 episodes I still need to watch? https://kisskh.at/discussions/bian-shui-wang-shi/129385-escape-from-the-triangular-slopes-companion-piece?pid=3118847&page=1#p3118847 (Music section)
Still slowly worming my way through last episodes, so some characters are still missing in the illustrated portrait gallery. And busy with the Black Myth Wukong game and music (theme well-known from another drama of 1986) ;-) Have a nice end of weekend !
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At the moment I'll stay on thrillers track, started with sizzling romance Embrace in the dark night which is short, so it was easy to fit in after business romance As Beautiful As You.
It is not justifiable to down rate a drama because you came for mistaken assumptions (what were you looking for : ML pining for a frail policewoman --or for a male colleague, god forbid?!!) and because you are too tired to watch dramas. If so, just go to bed and forget about it. No one forces you to watch or to rate.
Don't worry about the actors, they are quite happy that hundreds of thousands like their work here and that the heat index is soon going to ring the 10,000 bell. They certainly have no cause to have felt trapped while taking on the job or watching the outcome, now.
But he did save his sister, so he's falling, perhaps, into the morally gray category. Although I believe he is thoroughly rotten, perhaps as much as the lady we glimpsed. Godfather vibes. Thrilling !! That jump and kick to throw Zheng Nan's attacker away! Totally the kind those who want romance with muscular and powerful mafiosi will look for -- to be ultimately disappointed, since I strongly doubt censors would let pass a drama where the police does not get the upper hand...
The team is now well in place, and I am always chuckling at "Mad Dog Yao"s readiness to fly into the feathers of burly thugs. Team leader Bei is surprisingly soft-hearted for the Godfather's right hand man (doesn't he know by now?), and I was amazed that he let himself be out-drunk by Xiaohai. Gu the marathon runner is immersing himself into Dongbei language and cuisine with gusto, always with his glasses firmly in place even when he is being shot at. The other guys stand out less, but have their functions.
I am puzzled by the "Snowy" intro pictures with the ghost like figures apparently dangling from a rope.
https://kisskh.at/discussions/bian-shui-wang-shi/129385-escape-from-the-triangular-slopes-companion-piece?pid=3118859&page=1#p3118859
(you will get more comprehensive answers there than if I just leave the link to the appropriate subbed YouTube version).
In episode 5, her friend Zhao XiaoGuang was having a haircut and mentioned old HK & TW music luminaries of the period (late 1990s early 2000s when the police was not equipped with computers to check fingerprints...) I had to get a refresher of those old (canto or mandopop) songs by the "four kings" (劉德華Andy Lau,張學友Jacky Cheung,黎明Leon Lai,郭富城Aaron Kwok) and had a pause listening to this playlist-sampler : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hb4ZKkmvSY , adding the top 20 from Richie Jen also mentioned by the young sleuth : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5AMiyhAxZs or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aq2XS86alU&list=PLjQLC36lFhLo4cwxPDiOXFwlIHbpP2pbG Do some of you remember and have favorite songs there ?
Back to the release of episodes, I don't know what's going on with the Youku English channel which seemed to stop short at episode 12. And our usual crutches kiss and cool could not get past 14 with subs. So no other way than to watch in raw there or on original platform... until it "changes fate" to paraphrase the title of episode 15, which a helpful commenter discovered a subbed link to, revealed below in this comments section.
I hope it won't be the same for The First Shot... I'm two episodes in there, and like it.
Oh yes : Wang Ziqi. That's another actor I am following with a positive bias; including here with that period eyeglasses frame !
The companion piece is also mostly finished although I will be proofreading it in the coming days and adding perhaps a few things (not much). There are already 4 interesting farewell posts although I regret I could not find those of Guo Qilin and Wu Zhenyu /Francis Ng. Feel free to add links in comments after the Discussion piece if you find more of interest.
Perhaps Guo Qilin's farewell was in the very long transcript of his interview, which I may add in raw (in Chinese), as pictures like they appear on the social media page. But frankly, I don't feel up to translate the 11 pages (oof!) of posts manually, and there is no option for me to do so from posted screenshots- I lack such tech skills although might in the future enlist competent help to coach me. Here and now, it may be too much work even to screenshot those and add them into an Annex.
So, it is mostly goodbye from me as I am moving on to "The First Shot". Like announced in the "White Nights Theater" description and pinning of an article in the relevant section of the companion piece. Premiere is today September 3 for that new one.
And the start is, as expected, rather thrilling, past the first fisty fight and gory scenes.
(this comment was edited since 6 hrs last 😆)
As I (repeat) stated, I don't blame them for their bias : there may be grounds for disliking a story that does not feature the (sometimes lamented by others) superimposition of fluff. What I regret is that it looks like among those (not impressively many) MDL watchers who ventured here and put it up in their list, some could be from that state of mind, and will down-rate the drama just because it did not fit their expectations of romance or female empowerment. (AND THIS is not "idiot" "sense of superiority views" but direct reflecting my listening to people discussing in conventions or reading social media opinions randomly - there are too many to compile them all, I gave the link to some Weibo collections, in the companion piece).
If you want to bash my personal opinions for stating the obvious, well... I have posted my review. If you have watched the drama to completion and have an opinion about it, I shall be interested to read yours. If you are still stuck at episode 15 waiting to have a final opinion when you have seen it complete, I hope you will enjoy the remaining ones warts and all, and keep your favorable view on the drama.
I have added the weekly viewing score and latest heat index.
And a first farewell post from cast member. Will explore more Weibo pages in case additional messages can be added...
The other two non hip hop songs were possible to find, although one is only in the drama, as acknowledged by the singer who lives or lived in New York City for a long time and is a hardcore Bob Dylan fan. It is the ending song of episode 18.
I am not quite sure in which episode Cuo-Cuo-Cuo was sung, perhaps in the last 3-4 episodes I still need to watch?
https://kisskh.at/discussions/bian-shui-wang-shi/129385-escape-from-the-triangular-slopes-companion-piece?pid=3118847&page=1#p3118847 (Music section)
Still slowly worming my way through last episodes, so some characters are still missing in the illustrated portrait gallery.
And busy with the Black Myth Wukong game and music (theme well-known from another drama of 1986) ;-) Have a nice end of weekend !